“The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy” WayTryingChildrenHas BeensMomentsFeelingsCultureGamesPrayerViewsCitiesBoysTakenRiskOffersMountainOceanWorshipPraiseTablesRefuseSpreadContinuingSummitJoiningSpoiledChorusPsalmsSpoiled ChildrenJoining In Author:N. T. Wright
“We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.” GivingAmericaUsedNationsSocialPleasureRolesTakenGiving UpExpectationsIntentionInvestmentPrivilegeProfitRefuseStabilityVietnamImmenseHonorableColonyColombiaHelicoptersPeruGuerrillas Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I have to deal with being famous. Sometimes I have to tell people I don't do autographs, thank you very much. At certain places, I refuse to have my photograph taken.” PeopleSometimesCertainDealsTakenPhotographRefuseAutographsBeing Famous Author:Morgan Freeman
“Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses itself any reaction with regard to itself or its deeds. This virtue differs from and surpasses sincerity. We see many people who are sincere without being simple. They do not wish to be taken for other than what they are; but they are always fearing lest they should be taken for what they are not.” PeopleShouldSoulWishSimpleVirtueTakenRegardSimplicityRefuseDeedsReactionsSincereSincerity Author:Francois Fenelon
“Have you taken the decision of war? Then, you are sick! Have you participated the war? Then, you are sick! Do you produce guns? Then, you are sick! Refuse all of them and be healthy, be human, be normal, be a real man!” MenHumansWarRealDecisionTakenProduceHealthyNormalGunSickRefuseReal Men Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did despise me,' say: 'In my present state of agitation, I can't see clearly, I can't judge clearly; I am only a tragic actor who is declaiming for his own ears.' Then you will see the lights in the theater go out for lack of an audience, and the brilliant sets will be nothing more than painted cardboard.” I CanStatesLightPassionActorsAudienceTakenJudgingEarsTheaterRefuseBrilliantTragicDespiseEloquenceAgitationFalse Friends Author:Emile Chartier
“For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.” LongProblemGamesTakenFootballAuthorityRacismEnglandRefuseAcknowledge Author:Rio Ferdinand